Over the last few years the Italian Government has promoted national industrial policies to speed up the development of the country. There are lots of reasons why foreigner investors should invest in Italy. For more than 30 years Italy has been the 2nd largest manufacturing economy in Europe thanks to:

• Know how in leading sectors such as fashion, food, engineering, pharma, tourism
• SMEs: the Italian economy is based on small and medium-sized companies, playing a key role in the international market as supply chains of multinational companies.

Italy's northern regions are among the richest in Europe for capital income and in the tertiary sector there is the most important number of workers involved in the production of value. The Italian government introduced a range of incentives and extraordinary measures as tax credit, tax credit for R&D costs, tax relief on intellectual properties income, maxi depreciation on equipment and measures related to employment costs in order to support companies in facing challenging periods.The measures and the incentives adopted by Italy follow the new approach to industrial policy, focused on development and competitiveness.